The Penn's Grove record., 1887-08-13
state News,

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of Sea Breeze, have been arrested for
illegal liquor selling.
Tie total number of members in good
standing in New Jersey Department
of the Grand Army of the Republic is
96l8. During the quarter just ended
the Order made u net gain of 19l menu
bers'
A Hunterdon county paper states
that old Sylvia Duboise, the famous
black woman of the SOurland Noun
tain, is still spry and on foot, although
proof exists that shs has seen her n
hundred and twenty-second birthday.
Two survivors of the Mexican war
at Woodbury. have been granted PEN
sions of So per monh.
The streets and cutters in Mount
Holly have been sprinkled with
chloride of lime to prevent disease.
Col. Roberts, the Government ELL
gineer in charge of improvements on
the Delaware River and branch, esti-
mates that 81, 2l5, O0U will be required
to complete existing projects. He
wants $4,000 for Woodbury. creek and
$40. 900 for RaccOon creek.
Poet Walter Whitman, of Camden,
has peremptOrily refused to sanction
the formation of the Whitman Society
in Boston, which had for its main pur-
pose the endowment Of the poet with a
weekly pension.
The Maurice River Railroad, extend
ing from Manumuskin, on the West
Jersey Railroad, to Port Norris, on the
Delaware Bay, a distance of ten miles,
is now under construction. 1t is x
pected that this new road will be COM
pleted and IN operation at the opening
of the oyster season, on September LIST.
An oyster wharf and oyster houses
will be built at the Port Norris termi-
nal.
Daniel f. Cream, of Woodbury.,
formerly If Salem, has resigned the post
of Philadelphia District Superintendent
of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany.
Mrs. Sarah Senlpler Of Hightstown
was arrested Oh Friday and fined by
Squire Pearce for beinga common scold.
The Cumberland County Peach
Growers Exchange will not be opened
for business this year owing to a
failure of the crop throughout the
county. Tie new building In Bridge
ton was but recently finished.
1t is now stated that Gibbs and
Wesley, the Glassboro shoe manufac-
turers, who decamped early last spring
with two shop girls, are 10 living in
Plainyille, near Toronto, Canada.
That Gibbs is running small farm and
Wesley a shoe srore The reports are
not well founded but sufficiently so to
induce those interested in Glassboro to
think at sending after Gibbs on a
charge of bigamy, but the job has been
given mp becanse of the expense and the
fact that no satisfaction could be had
from him except to imprison him. A
letter which Gibbs left at his depart
ure plainly states that he had married
his paramour, but Wesley in his letter
said that he would marry her but for
the fact he had a wife.
The Barnegat Lighthouse is in dan
ger of being undermined by the sea.
Through the filing of the certificate
with the City Clerk it was on Satur-
day ascrrtained that Rev. j. E. Lake,
of Camden, married on July 5 China
man named Mar Fawn, Il shoemaker
living in Philadelphia, to Miss Mamie
A. Blessing, aged Il, a ~tailoress.
The church at Small Gloucester,
above Swedrsbofo, has been torn down
and a one will be erected in its
place.
lncor, rated towns of any size South
of Camden, with the exception of Cape
May, has adopted the anti-license sys-
tenn ia dealing with liquor.
Tie trouble about the title to the
Pitman Grove property has been salts
factorilly settled. 1t has been found
that Mr.. Seeds has no claim whatever
as the records show the title to have
been in the Jessup family for years.
The bodily health of ex ,janitor Titus,
the selfconfessed murderer of Title
Smith. is said to be rapidly breaking
down in prison, and ii is also thought
that his mind is giving way.
The earnings Of the West Jersey
Railroad aud branches for the first six
months OF this year were over $4,000
in excess Of what they were last year.
The old Reeves homestead, which
had been occupied that family for a
CENTURY and Was II Revolutionary land
mark, situated three miles from Cape
May, was destroyed by ire nearly Mos
day morning. The origin OF the
flames is unknown, and the family had
a narrow escape with their lives.